Introduction of Ansible Engine, advanced
network automation and latest version of Red Hat Ansible Tower
accelerate path to enterprise-wide automation
ANSIBLEFEST 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced new
innovations designed to advance IT automation as its strategic
importance grows in the enterprise.
Ansible is a game-changing open source automation technology for
the management of IT environments at scale. Designed to be simple
to adopt, use, and understand, Ansible has become one of the
world’s most popular open source IT automation technologies, with
nearly 3,000 unique contributors, more than 32,000 commits to the
upstream Ansible open source project, and a user base that spans
industries and the globe. Red Hat acquired the company behind
Ansible in 2015, with the aim of helping users drive down the cost
and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and
traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments. With
Ansible, organizations can make the automated enterprise a
reality.
Organization-wide adoption of automation technology can hold
significant potential in the enterprise. In a July 2017 study,
around three out of four respondents "highlighted the value of
automation in relation to all key aspects of IT operations work,"
with the majority of respondents see automation as "highly
valuable" or "worthwhile" throughout the operations cycle, from
initial provisioning through routine operation and support to
ongoing change management.
Today at AnsibleFest San Francisco, Red Hat introduced several
new Ansible innovations aimed at helping enterprise customers
harness the power of automation organization-wide: from IT
operations to development to network administration, and
in-between:
- Red Hat Ansible Engine, a new
offering designed to bring the enterprise-grade global support that
Red Hat is known for to the popular Ansible automation community
project.
- Red Hat Ansible Engine Networking
Add-on, including full support for select networking platform
modules.
- Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2, the
latest version of its enterprise Ansible automation management
platform.
As organizations face pressure to innovate more quickly and more
often, IT infrastructures need to be able to adapt to the latest
technology while still supporting critical legacy systems. This can
result in complex, disparate systems that are difficult to manage
without automation. With Red Hat Ansible Engine and Red Hat Ansible
Tower, organizations now have the ability to unify existing and
disparate technologies into simple, repeatable and automated
processes. This can help to extend access to and fully manage the
enterprise-wide deployment and adoption of business-critical
automation. This organization-wide adoption can be important to IT
organizations seeking to implement DevOps, as well as IT disruptors
that use automation to help drive digital leadership.
Red Hat Ansible Engine
Using Ansible automation, developers and IT operations teams can
more easily and quickly deploy IT services, applications and
environments, enabling them to remove barriers between IT teams by
automating routine activities. With Ansible Engine, Red Hat is
introducing a new offering that provides support for the open
source Ansible automation technology for the first time. While the
upstream Ansible community is known for fast-moving innovations,
many enterprises require a more secure, stable and reliable
approach. With Ansible Engine, organizations can access the tools
and innovations available from the underlying Ansible technology in
a hardened, enterprise-grade manner. Ansible Engine features:
- A reliable and enterprise-ready set of
Ansible automation, modules and capabilities.
- Business hours or 24x7 support from Red
Hat’s award-winning, global support organization.
- All the benefits of a Red Hat
subscription, including Open Source Assurance, Service Level
Agreement (SLA) response, regular security and maintenance updates,
and more.
Red Hat Ansible Engine is also available with new Networking
Add-on, helping to address a critical component of today’s
modern infrastructure. With networking automation, IT organizations
can now use fully supported Ansible modules, developed and
maintained in-house for many popular networking devices. This
offering includes full engineering support for the following
networking-specific Ansible modules:
- Arista (EOS)
- Cisco (IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS)
- Juniper (Junos OS)
- Open vSwitch
- VyOS
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2
As organizations adopt Ansible automation technology, the
requirement to govern, manage, and effectively scale IT automation
increases. Ansible Tower helps IT teams more effectively manage
automated systems and optimize multi-tier deployments while adding
control, greater security and delegation capabilities.
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2 includes several new and enhanced
features to help provide greater value to IT teams, including the
ability to:
- Manage more globally:
- Updated inventory support
enables users to create custom views for managing machines based on
their attributes across public, private and hybrid cloud
- Tower Instance groups dedicate
capacity for specific organizations and inventory
- Tower isolated nodes allow for
local job execution capacity in remote locations
- Automate more flexibly:
- SCM inventory support enables
teams to fully manage their automation and infrastructure as
code
- Pluggable credentials enable
users to define their own custom credential types, enabling
integration with third-party credential storage
Current Ansible Tower customers can add an Ansible Engine
subscription to their Ansible Tower subscription at any time to
gain support for the underlying Ansible automation that powers
Ansible Tower.
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2 is also the first version based on the
open source AWX project, a new open source community project
sponsored by Red Hat that enables users to directly interact with
and add features and capabilities to help drive innovations in
Ansible Tower.
Availability
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2 will be available later this month
through ansible.com and the Red Hat Customer Portal. Ansible Engine
and Ansible Engine for Network Automation is expected to be
available by the beginning of October as a stand-alone product or
as part of a Red Hat Ansible Tower subscription.
Press Conference
Red Hat will host a press conference about this news today,
September 7, at 1:00 pm PT. Register for the live webcast of the
event here.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“Around the world, we have seen strong interest in Ansible.
Enterprise customers are interested in more stable and reliable
automation technologies in order to be able to adopt these powerful
capabilities enterprise-wide. Additionally, as more automation
implementations directly impact mission-critical business
applications and environments, the requirements for greater
security, support and stability become even more important. By
expanding our portfolio with Red Hat Ansible Engine and Ansible
Engine for Network Automation, we are aiming to fill a need to help
organizations adopting these technologies with greater
confidence.”
Additional Resources
- Read more about Red Hat Ansible
Engine
- Learn more about Red Hat Ansible Tower
3.2
- Read more about Red Hat Ansible Engine
and Red Hat Ansible Tower use cases
- Dig deeper into Red Hat Ansible Tower
3.2
- Find out about the networking features
coming to Ansible 2.4
- Learn more about AWX
- Register for the press conference
webcast
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